Quotes with tragedy-in-the-making

Quotes 361 till 380 of 666.

  • Arthur Hertzberg Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Beth Broderick Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Edith Hamilton None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Gail Godwin None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • George Jean Nathan Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
    The World in Falseface
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • William S. Burroughs Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ''creative observation.'' Creative viewing.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Ad Reinhardt Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
    Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Beverley Mitchell Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.
    Beverley Mitchell
    American actress and singer (1981 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Barry Schwartz Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Beck Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
    Spin magazine, July 1994
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Josef Stalin One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
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  • Anish Kapoor One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • A. A. Milne One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Ben E. King One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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